Julia S Torrie
Biographic Data
| ID | 317197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia S Torrie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia S |
| FAMILY NAME | Torrie |
| SIGNATURE | TORRIE J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Thomas University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1526-5231 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Frozen meat and fish, imperialism, and France in the era of World War One
In the history of industrial freezing in France, World War One is often seen as a watershed. Lacking adequate channels of its own to import frozen meat for soldiers, France became dependent on British supply networks, which later served as a basis for the interwar expansion of French cold chains. However, focusing on the wartime connection to Britain obscures prewar French initiatives to freeze meat and fish notably in the empire. Examining such …
France’s Role in the Holocaust Revisited
This reappraisal examines the second edition of Michael R. Marrus and Robert O. Paxton’s study of the persecution of Jews in France, Vichy France and the Jews, which first appeared in French and English in 1981. It comments on the reception of the first edition, evaluates the second edition in light of the historiography of the intervening years, and suggests directions for future research
Hitler’s Collaborators
At dinner in October 1941 with Fernand de Brinon, who served as the Vichy regime’s representative to the German High Command in Paris, German novelist Ernst Jünger made the acquaintance of French writer and actor Sacha Guitry. As Guitry and Jünger conversed about a third writer, Octave Mirbeau, Guitry reported that on his deathbed, Mirbeau had whispered to Guitry, ‘Ne collaborer jamais!’ ‘What he meant,’ Jünger later wrote in his diary, ‘was coll…
An Empire For Our Times? A Discussion of Peter Wilson's The Holy Roman Empire
In the two centuries since its dissolution in 1806, the Holy Roman Empire has usually been viewed as an antiquated relic of the medieval past, a dysfunctional polity that hindered Germany's development into a modern, liberal nation-state. In the wake of its demise, a chorus of famous intellectuals and statesmen—including Voltaire, James Madison, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Leopold von Ranke, and Heinrich von Treitschke—derided the Empire as a “mo…
Frozen Food and National Socialist Expansionism
Fast freezing, developed from the 1920s, preserved food quality, taste, and appearance better than earlier techniques. After 1933, the National Socialists encouraged fast freezing in Germany because it promised to solve wartime supply problems and aligned with their ideas about modernity, efficiency, and centralization. During World War II, they used freezing to integrate the agricultural products of occupied and allied areas into a continental E…
Our rear area probably lived too well’
Between 1940 and 1944, Germans approached France not only as conquerors, but also as tourists. Tourism provided rest and relaxation, and gave individuals a framework to perceive France and interpret their own presence as occupiers. At the same time, tourism was exploited by policy-makers to reinforce dominance and satisfy soldiers’ curiosity without letting them lose the critical distance necessary for effective control. Even when resistance acti…
'For Their Own Good'
The early twentieth-century advent of aerial bombing made successful evacuations essential to any war effort, but ordinary people resented them deeply. Based on extensive archival research in Germany and France, this is the first broad, comparative study of civilian evacuations in Germany and France during World War II. The evidence uncovered exposes the complexities of an assumed monolithic and all-powerful Nazi state by showing that citizens' o…
Suicide in Nazi Germany
As Christian Goeschel notes at the beginning of this work, most people are aware that Hitler and his closest entourage killed themselves at the end of the Third Reich. But was this ‘orgy of self-immolation’ unexpected, or was it rather ‘the culmination of broader and deeper trends in ideology and behaviour’ (p. 1)? To answer this question, Goeschel examines suicide in Germany from 1918 to 1945, analysing both the subjective meanings of suicide, a…
Hitler's Home Front
As its subtitle more directly indicates, this is a history of the German Land (federal state) of Württemberg during the Nazi era. Using this relatively narrow geographical base, Jill Stephenson conducts a detailed investigation of the longer-term impacts of war and Nazism on a predominantly agricultural southern German region. Stephenson conceives of her work as a corrective to the standard, mainly urban, Prussian-dominated picture of Germany in …
The Many Aims of Assistance
(2007). The Many Aims of Assistance: The Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt and Aid to French Civilians in 1940. War & Society: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 27-37
Harlan Greene — The German Officer's Boy
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Marianne in Chains
Our rear area probably lived too well’
Between 1940 and 1944, Germans approached France not only as conquerors, but also as tourists. Tourism provided rest and relaxation, and gave individuals a framework to perceive France and interpret their own presence as occupiers. At the same time, tourism was exploited by policy-makers to reinforce dominance and satisfy soldiers’ curiosity without letting them lose the critical distance necessary for effective control. Even when resistance acti…
An Empire For Our Times? A Discussion of Peter Wilson's The Holy Roman Empire
In the two centuries since its dissolution in 1806, the Holy Roman Empire has usually been viewed as an antiquated relic of the medieval past, a dysfunctional polity that hindered Germany's development into a modern, liberal nation-state. In the wake of its demise, a chorus of famous intellectuals and statesmen—including Voltaire, James Madison, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Leopold von Ranke, and Heinrich von Treitschke—derided the Empire as a “mo…
Marianne in Chains
Harlan Greene — The German Officer's Boy
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
The Many Aims of Assistance
(2007). The Many Aims of Assistance: The Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt and Aid to French Civilians in 1940. War & Society: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 27-37
Hitler's Home Front
As its subtitle more directly indicates, this is a history of the German Land (federal state) of Württemberg during the Nazi era. Using this relatively narrow geographical base, Jill Stephenson conducts a detailed investigation of the longer-term impacts of war and Nazism on a predominantly agricultural southern German region. Stephenson conceives of her work as a corrective to the standard, mainly urban, Prussian-dominated picture of Germany in …
'For Their Own Good'
The early twentieth-century advent of aerial bombing made successful evacuations essential to any war effort, but ordinary people resented them deeply. Based on extensive archival research in Germany and France, this is the first broad, comparative study of civilian evacuations in Germany and France during World War II. The evidence uncovered exposes the complexities of an assumed monolithic and all-powerful Nazi state by showing that citizens' o…
Suicide in Nazi Germany
As Christian Goeschel notes at the beginning of this work, most people are aware that Hitler and his closest entourage killed themselves at the end of the Third Reich. But was this ‘orgy of self-immolation’ unexpected, or was it rather ‘the culmination of broader and deeper trends in ideology and behaviour’ (p. 1)? To answer this question, Goeschel examines suicide in Germany from 1918 to 1945, analysing both the subjective meanings of suicide, a…
Our rear area probably lived too well’
Between 1940 and 1944, Germans approached France not only as conquerors, but also as tourists. Tourism provided rest and relaxation, and gave individuals a framework to perceive France and interpret their own presence as occupiers. At the same time, tourism was exploited by policy-makers to reinforce dominance and satisfy soldiers’ curiosity without letting them lose the critical distance necessary for effective control. Even when resistance acti…
Frozen Food and National Socialist Expansionism
Fast freezing, developed from the 1920s, preserved food quality, taste, and appearance better than earlier techniques. After 1933, the National Socialists encouraged fast freezing in Germany because it promised to solve wartime supply problems and aligned with their ideas about modernity, efficiency, and centralization. During World War II, they used freezing to integrate the agricultural products of occupied and allied areas into a continental E…
An Empire For Our Times? A Discussion of Peter Wilson's The Holy Roman Empire
In the two centuries since its dissolution in 1806, the Holy Roman Empire has usually been viewed as an antiquated relic of the medieval past, a dysfunctional polity that hindered Germany's development into a modern, liberal nation-state. In the wake of its demise, a chorus of famous intellectuals and statesmen—including Voltaire, James Madison, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Leopold von Ranke, and Heinrich von Treitschke—derided the Empire as a “mo…
Hitler’s Collaborators
At dinner in October 1941 with Fernand de Brinon, who served as the Vichy regime’s representative to the German High Command in Paris, German novelist Ernst Jünger made the acquaintance of French writer and actor Sacha Guitry. As Guitry and Jünger conversed about a third writer, Octave Mirbeau, Guitry reported that on his deathbed, Mirbeau had whispered to Guitry, ‘Ne collaborer jamais!’ ‘What he meant,’ Jünger later wrote in his diary, ‘was coll…
France’s Role in the Holocaust Revisited
This reappraisal examines the second edition of Michael R. Marrus and Robert O. Paxton’s study of the persecution of Jews in France, Vichy France and the Jews, which first appeared in French and English in 1981. It comments on the reception of the first edition, evaluates the second edition in light of the historiography of the intervening years, and suggests directions for future research
Frozen meat and fish, imperialism, and France in the era of World War One
In the history of industrial freezing in France, World War One is often seen as a watershed. Lacking adequate channels of its own to import frozen meat for soldiers, France became dependent on British supply networks, which later served as a basis for the interwar expansion of French cold chains. However, focusing on the wartime connection to Britain obscures prewar French initiatives to freeze meat and fish notably in the empire. Examining such …
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